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GRASSO, Ella Tambussi (1919-1981)

Democrat of Connecticut

6th congressional district

Served in House 1971-1975

Total roll-call votes cast: 1,435

Biography

Representative from Connecticut; born Ella Rose Tambussi in Windsor Locks, Hartford County, Conn., May 10, 1919; attended the St. Mary's School in Windsor Locks, and the Chaffee School in Windsor; B.A., Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., 1940; M.A., Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., 1942; during the Second World War served as assistant director of research for the War Manpower Commission of Connecticut; member of the Connecticut state house of representatives, 1953-1957, and became first woman to be elected floor leader, 1955; secretary of State of Connecticut, 1958, and reelected, 1962, 1966; first woman chairman, Democratic State Platform Committee, 1956-1968; member, Platform Drafting Committee, 1960, Democratic National Convention; co-chairman, Resolutions Committee, Democratic National Conventions, 1964, 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and Ninety-third Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1975); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress, but was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1974; Governor of Connecticut, 1975-1980; reelected in 1978; resigned due to a physical disability, December 31, 1980; died on February 5, 1981, in Hartford, Conn.; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery, Windsor Locks, Conn.; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan, 1981.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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